Weird search terms that led visitors to the Trail

One of the features of our domain is a tracker that keeps track of all of the search terms that people plug into search engines that end with a click on the Tolkien Trail. Some of them are downright bizarre, and I have no idea how TT was reached. Here's just a few of them...

merlomo

Two people actually found TolkienTrail.com by keying "MerloMo" into Yahoo. Scary, no?

the beginning of eternity the end of time and space the beginning of every end and the end of every place behold three crosses follow me always

Uh, yeah... I guess that sounds a little like one of the riddles we have listed, but still...

the tolkien trail site:www.tolkientrail.com

Ok, if the person knew the title of the site and the url, what kind of idiot needs to put that into a search engine?

outie

Last I checked, we didn't have a site about belly buttons...

cat

Perhaps this surfer was in search of a Queen Beruthiel site?

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Sounds like Hernalt, but I have no idea how the tilde could lead to TT.

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Both very good fantasy authors in their own right, but we don't have any info about them at the Trail! I'm glad people are finding us via search engines, but some ways are just weird.

weird
I'm gonna try merlomo

My parents (before I told them how insane they were) used to do searches to find websites. They didn't know you could type the url in right up in that easy to find address bar!

Strange indeed! I too must try Merlomo!!!

it didn't work for me...

but i learned that merlomo's name is Colin Brunton. i guess my searcher works as it should do

Interesting.... Merlomo didn't lead to anything at first on my usual search engines, but when I tried google.com, the first place it lead to was Entmoot! Of course, why anyone would want to search for Merlomo in the first place is beyond me....

MerloMo brings up TT?

Now that, mes amis, is funny. :lol:

lol, that's hilarious. I'm going to try those, on Google.

i know someone who still types in url's into search engines even after i have repeatedly told him that it's ludicrous

well the most scary thing out of this
imagine who might try to find Merlomo whatever it mean

I tried merlomo on Google, but didn't get the Trail. Maybe I just didn't look at enough of the pages it found.

Oh, man. You have got to try this, it's so freaky it's cool.
Type your own name, first and last, into the search engine...
I thought I had a rather uncommon name, but I guess I'm wrong. It's neat, seeing how different these people who share your name are from you.

I just find that Merlomo is an old member of Entmoot

it could explain it

tried that for my name - got to a Dragonriders of Pern online RPG site. i guess it's somehow appropriate that the only people i'ev ever heard of with my name are fantasy characters...

i'd kind of like to meet the person who plays aryne though - that'd be interesting.

i also found mentions of some interesting characters: a
named H'bbit, E'lf, & Precious; riding the dragons Ringeth, Galadrieth, & Gollumth!

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